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Consent

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Con­sent is a cute short film that plays on the fact that two peo­ple should thor­oughly dis­cuss sex before actu­ally doing the deed. How thor­ough? Well you’ll see just as two young adults lean in for the kiss. The lan­guage is rather sug­gestible so don’t play this in front of the kid­dies. The film has writ­ten and directed by Jason Reit­man and won a cou­ple of awards. It’s eas­ily worth a few moments of your time.

Alma

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Alma is another award win­ning short film that is avail­able to watch online for a lim­ited time. It’s beau­ti­fully ani­mated and while it’s writ­ten and directed out­side of the U.S., there are no lan­guage bar­ri­ers because this film has no words. It’s got a lot of dolls in it and if you ever thought they were creepy, this just might explain why.

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

The Cat Piano

Monday, December 14th, 2009

This Ani­mated Short has been nom­i­nated for an Oscar this year but has already received numer­ous awards. The Cat Piano is a noir sort of film and is described as fol­lows, “A city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shad­owy fig­ure intent on per­form­ing a twisted feline sym­phony.” Want to find out more about it? Check out the offi­cial site. In the mean­time watch it now while it’s still on YouTube before they lock it in a vault some­where for posterity’s sake. Enjoy!

Signs

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Not all movies can can be fea­ture films and not all can be bought in stores. Unless they’re attached to a larger film, most short films fall in that cat­e­gory. This par­tic­u­lar film, Signs, was writ­ten and directed by Patrick Hughes and is a per­fect twelve minute date movie. I wouldn’t pay to see it in the the­ater but that’s only because of its size. I give it a 4 1/2 out of 5 marks. The other thing that’s great about it is you can watch it right now. Enjoy!